diff --git a/circle.yml b/circle.yml
index 528488cf..1879b488 100644
--- a/circle.yml
+++ b/circle.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ machine:
   environment:
     GOPATH: /home/ubuntu:$GOPATH
     SRCDIR: /home/ubuntu/src/github.com/weaveworks/weave
-    PATH: $PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/google-cloud-sdk/bin/
+    PATH: $PATH:$HOME/.local/bin
     CLOUDSDK_CORE_DISABLE_PROMPTS: 1
 
 dependencies:
@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@ dependencies:
     - "~/docker"
   post:
     - "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install bc jq"
-    - curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash
     - bin/setup-circleci-secrets "$SECRET_PASSWORD"
     - "mkdir -p $(dirname $SRCDIR) && cp -r $(pwd)/ $SRCDIR"
     - "cd $SRCDIR; git submodule update --init"
     - cd $SRCDIR/test; ./gce.sh make_template:
         parallel: false
     - "cd $SRCDIR/build; ../tools/rebuild-image weaveworks/weavebuild . Dockerfile build.sh && touch $SRCDIR/.build.uptodate"
+    - "sudo chown -R ubuntu /usr/local/go"
 
 test:
   override:
diff --git a/test/600_proxy_docker_py.sh b/test/600_proxy_docker_py.sh
index 724fbf4a..57a60233 100755
--- a/test/600_proxy_docker_py.sh
+++ b/test/600_proxy_docker_py.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 . ./config.sh
 
+IMAGE="joffrey/docker-py:1.8.1"
+
 docker_py_test() {
     SHARD=$1
     TOTAL_SHARDS=$2
@@ -12,9 +14,9 @@ docker_py_test() {
     # Work round https://github.com/docker/docker-py/issues/852
     docker_on $HOST1 pull busybox:buildroot-2014.02 >/dev/null
     # Get a list of the tests for use to shard
-    docker_on $HOST1 pull joffrey/docker-py >/dev/null
+    docker_on $HOST1 pull $IMAGE >/dev/null
     CANDIDATES=$(docker_on $HOST1 run \
-      joffrey/docker-py \
+      $IMAGE \
       py.test --collect-only tests/integration/ \
       | sed -En "s/\s*<Module '([[:print:]]+)'>/\1/p")
 
@@ -36,7 +38,7 @@ docker_py_test() {
         -e DOCKER_HOST=tcp://$DOCKER_BRIDGE_IP:12375 \
         -v /tmp:/tmp \
         -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
-        joffrey/docker-py py.test $TESTS ; then
+        $IMAGE py.test $TESTS ; then
         assert_raises "true"
     else
         assert_raises "false"